Article: TEARS FOR HEROES; Tears as families are told their men will 'never be forgotten'.(News)

Byline: Chris Musson

MORE than 3000 people wept in Scotland's oil capital yesterday for the 16 "heroes" who lost their lives in the worst offshore disaster since Piper Alpha.

A thousand mourners, led by Prince Charles, wife Camilla, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and First Minister Alex Salmond, packed Aberdeen's Kirk of St Nicholas for a memorial service to the men who died in the April 1 helicopter disaster.

More than 400 relatives of the victims were at the service.

More than 2000 local people stood outside in the cold on a cordoned-off ...

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